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Colombia takes action after disruption of the lecture of the history of Israel

Colombia takes action after disruption of the lecture of the history of Israel

Columbia University banned two activists and suspended one student for their involvement in disrupting the class of Israeli history, the Bureau of Public Affairs of Universities updated on Monday.

The university announced that he identified two more masked activists who, last Tuesday, entered the history of the modern Israel course taught by the Israeli historian Dr. Avi Shilon and dispersed leaflets with violent images. These protests participants were not students of Colombia, but apparently they were enrolled in an associate academic institution. The Public Affairs Office stated that they were banned from the campus and directed to their home institution for investigation and discipline.

The third activist was identified as a student of Colombia on Thursday and was suspended in anticipation of a full investigation and disciplinary process.

“The interference study, including the identification of additional participants, remains active,” Columbia said on Thursday. “Disturbances in our classes and our academic mission and efforts to intimidate or harass our students are unacceptable, are discouraged from every member of our university community and will not be tolerated.”

The university promised last Wednesday an accelerated full investigation in the incident and published bodyguards outside the classes that they identified as a similar risk of disturbance.

Anti -zrael protesters from Columbia University broke into the iconic Hamilton Hall building at Columbia University (credit: Getty Images)

The disturbance of the class was widely condemned by various actors, including the temporary President of Katrina Armstrov, Columbia Columbia/Barnard Hillard Hillard Kraft Center for Jewish Student Life, House Committee on Education and Workforce, American Jewish Committee and the Anti -ordinary league.

A group of employees associated with lecturers and justice staff in Palestine on Columbia University, Barnard College and Teachers College sent a letter to Columbia Spectator on Thursday, criticizing the protest. While FSJP said that he defended the freedom of speech and protests, and believed that anti -Jonisism should not be equated with anti -Semitism, he could not defend the break of the Shilon class. The group believed that the paintings of leaflets were violent and “from the shameful annals of anti -Semitic propaganda.” They also noticed that the activists ignored Shilon’s invitations to join the class.

“Such an interference in a classically involved class in Israel’s analytical study is not to defend and oppose the cause of Palestinian liberation and the pursuit of science,” we read the letter to the editor. “We know that yesterday’s unacceptable actions do not represent the vast majority of pro-Palestinian activists in Columbia and we do not want to discredit the entire movement; We strongly reject actions that make it difficult for academic freedom and promote anti -Semitic material. “

Glorifying violence

Colombia also condemned Apartheid from the Colombia of the University (CUAD) for “using images that violence loves is a violation of our values” on his Instagram account. Cuad organized protests on the day of the class disruption, in which some leaflets called for “crushing Zionism” and depicted the shoe stepped onto the broken star of David.

CUAD issued a statement on the support of activists on Wednesday, declaring that the class prescribes the Palestinian history, and thus was violent by nature.


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“Every University of Gaza was destroyed. As long as there are classes and functions (W) Columbia, which support and prescribe genocide, occupation and settlement colonialism of Palestine- we will continue to interfere! “Cuad said on Wednesday.

The collection and suspension of students appeared when Cuad’s protest was partly demanded that the administration would reject disciplinary allegations for dozens of students who participated in the occupation of campus buildings in April.

Cuad organized a strike on the first day of the semester, during which the protesters chanted: “They globalize intifada,” said Colombia student and Israeli peace activist Josh Drill, said Josh Post of Jerusalem. In Tuesday’s Instagram post, the drill argued that the only way to move to the room between Israelis and Palestinians was not to use violence.

Protesters also planned their own lectures last Tuesday in the episcopal church Harlem St. Mary, but according to positions in the social media of CUAD and the Church, the Department of Police in New York barricaded the block and apparently did not allow carrots to enter due to the safety of fears. The church said that he was told that protesters were breaking the law, walking on the street.

The church said in a Monday statement that as a consequence it would be prayers for justice and peace on Tuesday and Sunday is coming.